GEWEIH – Body as Threshold

A Butoh research on metamorphosis, flesh, and wildness

(informed by ecofeminist perspectives)

In GEWEIH, the body becomes a porous threshold between the human and the more-than-human, between memory and stone, instinct and transformation. Working with antlers as sculptural extensions and ritual tools, this Butoh research explores the body's capacity to listen, to remember, and to become other.

Through an ecofeminist lens, the project challenges anthropocentric and patriarchal narratives by reclaiming the body as a site of intuitive knowledge, cyclical change, and deep ecological entanglement. The painted, de-individualized figure resists objectification and instead offers a space for animality, vulnerability, and myth to emerge.

Rather than representing nature, GEWEIH invokes it—through embodied ritual, stillness, and the raw presence of a body that is both earth and echo, both wound and witness.

The body is queer, wild, vulnerable - but never available. Instead of representing, it is thought through body knowledge. The pose is not a gesture to the camera, but a moment of occupation: of space, of myth, of visibility.

The performer becomes animal, becomes earth, becomes stone. But not in the sense of a metaphorical transformation, but as a radical proposal for relationality: the body as a carrier of stories, as a temporary appearance of a larger ecological context.

#Butoh #Ecofeminism #Animism #Morethanhuman #Embodiment #Mythology #Metamorphosis #Feministbodytheory #Nonhumankinship #Ritualgesture #Bodyaslandscape #Posthumanchoreography #Vulnerability #wildness

#Decolonialaesthetics #Somaticresistance